Halep and Svitolina advance to French Open quarterfinals
Open final a year ago , but the Czech player had never been past the second round at Roland Garros in five previous appearances. It came down to about two points. "So far still before this tournament I was struggling on clay with nearly everything".

Report Of Multiple Casualties In Incident On London Bridge
MARTIN: In a minute, I'm going to ask you to tell us about the area, about central London, for people who aren't familiar with it. The Sun newspaper, whose offices are beside London Bridge, reported hearing explosions about three hours after the attacks began.

Djokovic trails 2-1 against Schwartzman in Paris
Venus Williams of the U.S. secured her place in the next round this evening with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Belgium's Elise Mertens. Novak Djokovic is coming off a five set win over Diego Schwartzman that took 44 games to decide.

Apple CEO Says Repatriation Tax Should Be Mandatory Levy
Apple "deeply cares" about Music, after creating the iPod, and wants to reinvent music in the home as well, Cook said. Cook sent an email to staff last week reassuring them that Apple would continue to protect the environment .

Nervous times for May as Labour eats away at lead
The Labour leader followed the Prime Minister onto a BBC Question Time special, but the two did not face each other in a debate. May had said she was too busy "thinking about Brexit negotiations" and "meeting voters" to take part in the debate.

Trump sons defend his criticism of London mayor
It was not until the Westminster attack in March of this year that Mr Khan again had friction with the Trump family. In other comments, May and Johnson both defended Khan for his reassurances to Londoners after the attacks.

Trump calls on Israelis, Palestinians to compromise
Trump pledged U.S. aid for the investigation into the attack in a telephone call Tuesday with British prime minister Theresa May. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, bending to the same security risks as other presidents who have made that promise.

U2 to perform at Arrowhead Stadium
The band will be play the iconic album, which contains hits such as Where the Streets Have No Name, in its entirety each night. It looked like the closest Indianapolis fans would get to U2 would be the band's upcoming shows in Louisville or Chicago.

White House looks for ways to undermine Comey's credibility

Comey's testimony appears to confirm news reports that Trump personally requested the FBI chief halt the investigation, and the former FBI chief said he did not tell Trump he would "let this go".

"I had understood the president to be requesting that we drop any investigation of Flynn in connection with his false statements about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in December", added Comey, who was sacked by Trump in early May.

"I wish him luck", Trump said, speaking briefly with reporters after a White House meeting in the Roosevelt Room with Republican Senate and House leaders on Tuesday. "Comey" class="local_link" >James Comey's testimony before a Senate panel could all affect investor sentiment.

Comey might have to field some uncomfortable questions, especially if he now characterizes the February meeting with Trump and his own later firing as an attempt at obstruction of justice.

Comey said Trump told him at a dinner on January 27, a week after the president took office, that: "I need loyalty".

Comey also faces serious credibility problems ahead of his highly anticipated Senate testimony Thursday, with 36 percent of Americans saying they trust what he says about Russian Federation and the election "a great deal" or "a good amount", while 55 percent trust him less or not at all. He paused and then said, "That's what I want, honest loyalty.". Since then, Trump and Comey allies have traded competing narratives about their interactions.

"He is a good guy and has been through a lot".

"He then said, 'I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go".

Republican Senator Susan Collins of ME, who is also a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said it will be one of the first questions she asks Comey.

The new revelation about Comey's uneasiness with Trump brings to mind a posting last month by Comey friend Benjamin Wittes on his Lawfare blog, in which he said Comey "saw it as an ongoing task on his part to protect the rest of the Bureau from improper contacts and interferences from a group of people he did not regard as honorable". In a March 30 phone call with Comey, Trump "described the Russian Federation investigation as "a cloud" that was impairing his ability to act on behalf of the country".

Comey said his practice of keeping written meeting records began after his encounter with Trump before the inauguration. "He asked what we could do to 'lift the cloud'".

"I had understood the President to be requesting that we drop any investigation of Flynn in connection with false statements about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in December". The White House has already put the world on notice that Trump may tweet during the testimony.

Later in this April 11 call, Trump also made a cryptic reference to loyalty.

Coats' associates told the Post that he discussed Trump's request with other officials and decided it was inappropriate. The poll finds substantial skepticism across party lines, evidence that his role investigating the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has taken a toll. The New York Times buries the lead in this story, as did CBS News, both of which emphasize the discomfort James Comey had in meeting with Donald Trump - so much so that he asked Jeff Sessions to act as his wingman.